The caudal fin is strongly divided and rigid, with a slender, ridged base.

The competition is stiff.

Your mother is not strict, is she?

Your mother is not strict, is she?

Both ISIS and al Nusra impose austere dress codes on women based on a rigid interpretation of Sharia law.

It is not as hard and rigid as bone but is stiffer and less flexible than muscle.

A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Sumo wrestling is a strict hierarchy based on sporting merit.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

I cannot complain to the teacher. She's very hard.

He was educated by the Jesuits and later attended the University of Ingolstadt.

Male dogs are very serious about a hierarchy, because it prevents physical fights.

Mo Yan has been forced to live in a highly repressive and rigid political society.

Administrative divisions Rwanda has been governed by a strict hierarchy since precolonial times.

The wood for the fretboard usually differs from the wood in the rest of the neck.

Life as a wrestler is highly regimented, with rules laid down by the Japan Sumo Association.

You can't not know who you are, so you cling to hard matter identity.

They had a stiff tail, like the theropods, to help them balance as they ran on their hind legs.

And I can hold my arm in a particular joint configuration either very stiff or very relaxed.

In the second place, the influence of Comenius was in formulating the general theory of education.

The cell wall is a very tough, flexible and sometimes fairly rigid layer that surrounds some types of cells.

Mechanically, the lithosphere is cooler and more rigid, while the asthenosphere is hotter and flows more easily.

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

Tectonic plates The mechanically rigid outer layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is broken into pieces called tectonic plates.

In popular and folk music, the composer is usually called a songwriter, since the music generally takes the form of a song.

These sub regions are more conceptual than culturally meaningful, and the demarcation of their limits is not rigid.

It is not rigid, since rank is based on varied factors, including occupation, wealth, Islamic virtue, and family ties.

For Callisto, the outer conductive layer corresponds to the cold and rigid lithosphere with a thickness of about 100 km.

An environmental psychologist told me, If you're sitting in a hard chair on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.

Rapid economic growth fueled by foreign credits gradually gave way to wrenching austerity and severe political repression, which became increasingly draconian through the 1980s.

Well, the surface of the spray coating is actually filled with nanoparticles that form a very rough and craggly surface.

Much remains to be done, however, and I call on the Commission to be far tougher in exposing the subsidy junkies of Europe.

The subsequent Petroleum Fund Law has very strict and specific wording in relation to what can be withdrawn from the fund.

The rigid separation of Tokugawa society into han, villages, wards, and households helped reaffirm local Shinto attachments.

Despite the tour, Smuts lost the election the following year, and the new government instituted a strict policy of racial segregation.

Abbey of Cluny The Abbey of Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910, and was noted for its strict observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.

Horizontal collectivists tend to favor democratic decision making, while vertical collectivists believe in a more strict chain of command.

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In the casino, with its relatively rigid main façade, Niemeyer departed from Corbusian principles and designed curved volumes outside the confinement of a rational grid.

For example, the Miura map fold is a rigid fold that has been used to deploy large solar panel arrays for space satellites.

The first thing you do is lock into a tight body position head down in your chest, your arms extended, put over your reserve parachute.

If there is one clear lesson from history, it is that the combination of open financial markets and a rigid exchange rate is a disaster waiting to happen.

In recent years, conservative voices from the ruling coalition in the Muslim majority nation have become more aggressive in pushing for the strict application of Islamic beliefs in governance.

Some constituent states of the empire did embrace Mercantilism, most notably Prussia, which under Frederick the Great had perhaps the most rigidly controlled economy in Europe.